Milestone Terms 1: Reading Informational Text

Informational texts:

• Informational texts are passages that explain or inform. (RI)

• Informational texts are passages that argues or inform. (RI)

• Informational texts are passages that persuades. (RI)

• Informational texts are passages that entertains or informs. (RI)

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Inference:

• The author tells the reader exactly what he or she needs to know. (RI1)

• To infer means to come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text. (RI1)

• To infer means to come to a reasonable conclusion based on imaginary stories found in the text. (RI1

• By contrast, an explicit idea or message is fully stated or revealed by the author. (RI1)

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

Explicit:

• Life lesson by the author. (RI1)

• Idea or message is not stated by the author. (RI1)

• Idea or message is fully stated or revealed by the author. (RI1)

• Idea or message is inferred by the author. (RI1)

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

Central idea:

• An overview of a text.

• To come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the text.

• A short story about an interesting person or event.

• The most important point or idea that the author is making in a text.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

Figurative meaning:

• The symbolic meaning of words or phrases and uses figurative language such as personification, simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and idiom.

• The actual meaning of a word or phrase.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5A

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

Personification:

• An object acting like a person.

• a comparison using like or as.

• a descriptive comparison that states one thing is another.

• exaggeration beyond belief.

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Simile:

• An object acting like a person.

• A comparison two things using like or as.

• A descriptive comparison that states one thing is another.

• A quirky expression or saying that is specific to a language.

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Metaphor:

• An object acting like a person.

• A comparison using like or as.

• A descriptive comparison that states one thing is another.

• A quirky expression or saying that is specific to a language.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Hyperbole:

• An object acting like a person.

• exaggeration beyond belief

• A descriptive comparison that states one thing is another.

• A quirky expression or saying that is specific to a language.

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Idiom:

• An object acting like a person.

• exaggeration beyond beli

• A descriptive comparison that states one thing is another.

• A silly expression or saying that is specific to a language.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3